• @[email protected]
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    579 days ago

    At the risk of becoming too anti-casual, anti-gay slurs were so common in the US up until the mid/late 90s, if you weren’t there for it you just have no idea. One of the Bill and Ted movies (I think the first one?) just randomly dropping it in there as a joke, where the slur is the joke, is a good example of just how it was then. There’s still bigotry but it’s not as casual and pervasive.

    • @[email protected]
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      129 days ago

      It’s weird watching average sitcoms from then because of this. The more popular ones are sometimes better but even Seinfeld wasn’t great with it.

      • @thrawn
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        229 days ago

        He dropped like a thousand of them. He was using it regularly until sometime in the 2010s.

        Eminem is weird cause he leans left but will use any word— save for n word and now f— as long as it rhymes or fits the scheme, then does nearly nothing else offensive. It’s like words are exempt from his morality.

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      38 days ago

      a lot of media used the F slur well into the 2000s. it’s pretty shocking to watch nowdays